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1. Articles of Confederation: The first constitution of the United States
2. Shay’s Rebellion: was an armed uprising in Central and Western Massachusetts
3. Great Compromise: The Great Compromise resolved that there would be representation by population in the House of Representatives, and equal representation would exist in the Senate.
4. Federalism: someone believes in, supports, or follows a federal system of government.
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise: compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention.
6. Whiskey Rebellion: was a popular uprising on tax.
7. Little Turtle: was a chief of the Miami tribe in what is presently Indiana.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts: were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787: was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
10. Louisiana Purchase: purchased from France for $15 million
11. Monroe Doctrine: A cornerstone of US foreign policy as enunciated
12. Impressments: was the act of compelling some people to serve in the military
13. Star Spangled Banner: the national flag of the United States of America
14. Eerie Canal: An artificial waterway connecting the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo
15. Samuel Slater: was an early American industrialist popularly
16. Eli Whitney: He was a well-known American inventor.
17. Horace Mann: was an American education reformer, and a member of the U.S.
18. Temperance Movement: A temperance movement is a social movement against the use of alcohol.
19. Seneca Falls Convention: was an early and influential women's rights convention
20. Indian Removal Act: part of a United States government policy known as Indian removal.
21. Alamo: a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio
22. Frederick Douglas - Abolitionist speaker who escaped from slavery
23. William Lloyd Garrison- United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal
24. Missouri Compromise- an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions
25. Nullification Crisis- was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson
26. Wilmot Proviso- Proposal in Congress, made by David Wilmot, that forbid slavery in all of the new territories acquired from Mexico
27. Compromise of 1850- was a series of bills aimed at resolving the territorial and slavery controversies arisen from the Mexican-American
28. Underground Railroad- secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe- was an American abolitionist and author.
30. Kansas-Nebraska Act- created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands
31. John Brown- was a criminal trial held in Virginia in October 1859 to prosecute radical anti-slavery abolitionist
32. Nat Turner- was an American slave who led a slave rebellion that resulted in 55 deaths
33. Dred Scott- was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully
34. Jefferson Davis- American soldier and president of the Confederacy
35. Robert E Lee- American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War
36. Anaconda Plan- is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
37. border state- efers to the five slave states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia, which bordered a free state and were aligned with the Union.
38. Stonewall Jackson- general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
39. George McClellan- U.S. Army Major General during the American Civil War
40. Ulysses S Grant- commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War
41. Antietam- Civil War battle in 1862, in which an attempt by the South to strike into Maryland
42. Gettysburg- a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
43. Vicksburg- a town in western Mississippi
44. Emancipation Proclamation- consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War
45. Conscription- compulsory military service
46. total war- s a strategy game series developed by the Creative Assembly.
47. William Sherman- was an American soldier
48. John Wilkes Booth- United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln